Improvement in feather-renovators



W. M. SHELTON.

FEATHER RENOVATOR.

Patented Aug. 15, 1876.

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WILLIAM M. SHELTON, OF WILLIAMSBURG, MISSOURI.

IMPROVEMENT IN FEATHER-'RENOVATOR Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 181,213., dated August 15, 1876; application filed June 27, 1876.

To all whom it muy concern:

Be it known that 1, WILLIAM M. SHELToN, 0f Williamsburg, in the county of Callaway and State of Missouri, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Feather-Renovators; and I do hereby declare that the following is a full, clear, and exact description of the same.

The invention is an improvement upon the feather-renovator constituting the subject of Letters Patent No. 108,161, the features of receives the foreign matter eliminated from the feathers in the renovating process. rIhe reel B serves to agitate-the feathers by its rotation, and the shaft O of the same is made hollow and perforated, as shown, to admit steam to the renovatingchamber. The steam is generated by any suitable heating apparatus, and conducted toihc chamber A by a jointed or tiexible pipe,j, connected to the pipe g, which latter is adapted to lit the interior of the reel-shaft C.

When the feathers have been subjected to the action of steam for a sufcient time, the pipeg is pushed in to close the openings in the shaft (l, and thus shut off the steam from the chamber, as in Fig. 2. The shaft U is provided with perforations at h in its journal, coincident with openingsin the bearings, and through these openings the steam escapes from pipe g into the space between the lining a and casing b, both upward and downward. The heat thus imparted to the lining a by the steam filling said space is quickly communicated to the feathers, and has the desired effect of bleaching them. But for this purpose it is necessary that thedoors 7c of the several screens or gauzecovered openings l in the cylinder shall remain closed. On the other hand, for drying the feathers the lsaid doors k require to be opened to allow the outer air to circulate through the first and second screens at the top of the case A, and the screens m in the sides of the case near the bottom, while the heated air will tend to escape through the third and fourthscreens'at the top of the case. When dry, the feathers may be ejected through the slide-covered opening in the side of the cylinder. When steam is being admitted to the chamber through the body of the hollow reel-shaft, the openings hin thejournal thereot' are closed by a plug, o, inserted in the end of the shaft, as shown. When the pipe g is pushed into the shaft to shut off the steam, the plug o is pushed or drawn out suiiiciently to 'uncover the openingsh, as shown in Fig. Z.

I do not claim, broadly, providing the casing of a feather-renovator with one or more gauze-covered openings having imperfora-tc slides; but

What I claim isl. The combination, with the hollow perforated reelshaft, of the sliding` or detachable pipe g, substantially' as shown and described.

2. The combination ofthe pipe g, having an imperforate body, with the reel-shalt, having perforations throughout its length and also in its journal, land the hollow casing, substantially as shown and described.

WILLIAM M. SHELTON.

Witnesses:

JOSEPH J. NEAL, WILLIAM H. HALE, GEO. YA'rEs. 

